EVE New Citizens Q&A

My personal experience with easy-navigation is this: use the Assets window (ALT+T) to find where you want to go.

I use the All Items tab, and sort it by number of jumps. Right click on the station I want, and select Set Destination. The stargates and stations will be highlighted in space and in the overview.

The reason why I do this is because anything I've bought/stolen/etc and left in a station will appear in this list.


To answer the other questions

2: Yes. Yes. Inject the book, and you can train it when and where you like.

3: No. Podded means your pod was destroyed. Mission rats will not shoot your pod. Belt rats will not shoot your pod either. Pretty much the only time your pod is in danger is when another (human)player is nearby.

Your mission is still active. Jump into another ship, and try again. But this time, think about what went wrong the first time and try to fit your ship differently.

4: Yes, you're in highsec. That 0.9, 1.0, etc is the system's security level. Loosely speaking, the higher it is the safer it is. Also, the lower is it, the more money you will make.

The important thing to understand is that this only applies to rats. Other players do as they please, and are always danderous. If you're shot at by players, Concord (the space police) will try to protect you in 0.5 or higher. Emphasis on try. They're pretty bad at saving people, but they're brutally efficient at killing players. If you're in a system 0.4 or lower (which goes all the way down to negative 1.0) you'll get no such help.

In the tutorials and career agent missions you do get tutorials on how to navigate. You can revisit those tutorials at any time.

1) As for setting a route you can enter the name of the system in question (Chaven, for example) in the controls you mention. You notice a text box to do that. You can also find the system (or station, etc.) via the starmap, or from your People and Places (agents there that you have contacted) and from any of these things you can right click and you'll have an option to set destination.

You can also type in the name of the system in a chat channel window, then highlight it, select the auto link option and choose solar system. This will then create a link in the chat window and you can then choose that to set a destination to.

There are third party tools that you can access through the in-game browser, such as Dotlan, and you can interact with the maps there to set destination.

2) The item is available in the station you purchased it at. It will be in your personal hangar there. In order to get or use the item/skillbook you have to go to that station to get the item in question. All of your items can be found in your Assets window and you can use that to set destination for navigational purposes.

3) Being podded is when your capsule, or pod, is destroyed. Only players can do this to you, NPCs can't do this. When you're podded you'll awaken in a new clone in your set home station. The station you choose has to have a clone bay. Any implants you had installed in your clone will be destroyed if you are podded in that clone. Your pod can be shot at, but only by players, and depending on the circumstances there may be consequences to them for doing so. Some are minor, some are major. Safety is always a relevant point in Eve Online and never a guarantee (unless you never undock).

You can continue the mission until it expires. Losing your ship doesn't affect this, unless you had a mission specific item you had to turn in to the agent, and it was in your cargo hold, and it's either destroyed, or someone steals it if it drops, or too much time passes (2 hours) and the wreck disappears/despawns.

4) High security space (HighSec) are systems with a security status of 0.5 to 1.0. 0.9 would be a highsec system. You are not punted from highsec with regards to be subbed or not. Your own personal security status, or faction standings may make life difficult in highsec should you ever get to that point. LowSec is systems rated from 0.1 to 0.4. NullSec is systems rated from 0.0 to -1.0. W-space is all -1.0 or lower.

When you subscribe your account you will be able to access all the same things you can now, and without any of the trial account limitations. If there is no need to hold off subscribing, do it now. You won't lose the trial time on your account.


Good luck out there.

Great, thanks everybody for the quick responses. For the blood raider mission I used an imperator with "gatling laser I". I believe that is what it was called.

I have access to other ships; an executioner and a tormentor. I also have a couple of Dual light beam lasers with Multifrequency S.

When using these lasers, is it just a matter of locking on to the oponent and clicking once when you are in range? Does the laser keep firing automatically until the opponent is destroyed (without having to keep clicking it).

Use the Tormentor. It is more "forgiving" to newbies, but requires a few more skills (drones specifically).

[Tormentor, Newbie PvE]

Damage Control I
Adaptive Nano Plating I
Small Armor Repairer I
Capacitor Power Relay I

Cap Recharger I
Cap Recharger I
1MN Afterburner I

Gatling Pulse Laser I, Standard S
Gatling Pulse Laser I, Standard S
Gatling Pulse Laser I, Standard S

[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]

Hobgoblin I x2



Once you lock a target the laser will keep firing automatically. The trick for you is to stay in range (at the edge of your optimal) so the damage applies properly and know when to run away (if your repair systems are being overwhelmed).

This may seem simple on the surface (and it is), but if you go into very advanced PvE or even basic PvP then things will become quite difficult.

I suggest you work on learning how to manage the incoming information flow until that "deer in the headlights" reaction goes away (it's normal, but you want to get past it ASAP).


Also... EXPERIMENT with everything. Press all the buttons and "see what happens."

Yes there is a navigation tutorial where they show you how to move around and go to other systems. Also in the tutorial missions they added a mission a few years back where you were supposed to loose your ship as in it was impossible to not loose you ship and complete the mission. I'm not sure if that is the mission that you are on.

One common mistake people make is in reading over the mission objectives and description too quickly. CCP has put a lot of effort in recent years into making the new player experience intuitive and informative. I will not imply that it is perfect but careful attention has been paid to the wording of mission texts so that it is difficult to get lost. I recomend that you take a second look at the mission objectives to see if they have changed or there is some info that you missed the first time.

Also eve is an MMO and meant to be played with others. I can see from this line of questioning that you are trying to go it alone. I recommend you stop that and look for some friends and / or a corp that is friendly to new players. It is much easier when you have people that you can ask question of as you go.

Here's a neat little trick I use.
I have my own private chatroom with no one in it.

For ease of access to my favourite spots,
I simply link the systems in the MOTD.

All system names can be dragged from the topleft,
where it states the name. You might or might not have that hidden, btw.

That means that every time I log in ... they're already waiting for me.
It also means that it only takes me two fast clicks MAX to use them.

It's always there, it needs virtually no space (as it's stacked with other chats)
and it's way faster to access than any other option available.

As for market etc.


Once you buy something:

It is dropped in your personal hangar IN the station it is located.
Stuff in EVE doesnt magically move from station to station. Stuff has to be moved by players to get from A to B. So your inventory is 'station based'.

If you are in station A and buy something in station B, you have to go to station B to collect it if you want to use it. There are some things like blueprints which can be "used" remotely with skills though. But you cant move them other then going there load them in your ship and move them (or pay someone else to do the moving).

HEADS UP: Never ever undock with a PLEX or anything you cant afford to lose in your cargo. The first is a near garuanteed lossmail waiting to happen, the latter can be and thus dont risk it.

As for skills, just buy the book (most of them have a common seeding point in "School" station) and inject it. By injecting it is added to your "known" skills and can never be lost again, you can always deside to train it at a later stage.

No, you were NOT podded.

Podded is losing your pod, not your ship.

NPCs will not pod you, only players will (at this stage)
Losing your pod also means you lose any implants you are using.

Also:

You CAN be shot at EVERYWHERE by ANYBODY.

There is no PvP-free zone in space. Period.

I might be the only player that actually uses the Notes feature. Also - corp bulletins. People are barely aware of those.

Thanks everybody for all the replies. I appreciate the all the info and will try some of these tips and suggestions as I work through some of these missions.